Photos stored undeveloped in camera for 68 years of Pearl Harbour bombing.

Sailor Steve · 12-11-10, 04:07 PM

It's been posted before, and it's BS. Most of those photos have been available since they were taken, are in books galore, and are readily available on the internet.

Have a look here:
http://www.google.com/images?q=pearl...w=1419&bih=699

Even better - here are some that have been in the National Archives since 1941. Recognize any of them?
http://www.google.com/images?q=pearl...w=1419&bih=699

And...

Quote:

THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.

USS Quapaw was launched in 1943, almost two years after the attack.
http://www.ussquapaw.com/history.cfm

Nisgeis · 12-11-10, 04:16 PM

Curse you internet, you win again. When General Umbongo sends me that $34 million he's promised me in that email for helping him with his banking issues, I'll clean up the web for sure. Still, I'd not seen the pics before.

I did read elsewhere though that some of the famous 'photographs' are actually stills from cine film, which explains how they were taken at exactly the right point. But what's more interesting is that the cine films used to illustrate the event were in colour. It's just that everyone grew up seeing the B&W (cheaper) reproduction images that people have an expectation that they were B&W originally, so no one thought to find the originals when colour became more prevalent. As time goes on and more of this stuff comes out of private archives, we have a greater picture of events.

Sailor Steve · 12-11-10, 04:22 PM

Oh, I agree completely. There are photographs in private collections that still haven't seen the light of day. I was just looking through my own childhood pictures, and it got me thinking about all the pics taken over the decades. Most of them, like mine, are of no historical significance whatever, but there must still be some depicting events which should be remembered.

12-11-10, 04:16 PM	#2
Nisgeis Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,909 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 11	Curse you internet, you win again. When General Umbongo sends me that $34 million he's promised me in that email for helping him with his banking issues, I'll clean up the web for sure. Still, I'd not seen the pics before. I did read elsewhere though that some of the famous 'photographs' are actually stills from cine film, which explains how they were taken at exactly the right point. But what's more interesting is that the cine films used to illustrate the event were in colour. It's just that everyone grew up seeing the B&W (cheaper) reproduction images that people have an expectation that they were B&W originally, so no one thought to find the originals when colour became more prevalent. As time goes on and more of this stuff comes out of private archives, we have a greater picture of events. __________________ -------------------------------- This space left intentionally blank.

12-11-10, 04:22 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Oh, I agree completely. There are photographs in private collections that still haven't seen the light of day. I was just looking through my own childhood pictures, and it got me thinking about all the pics taken over the decades. Most of them, like mine, are of no historical significance whatever, but there must still be some depicting events which should be remembered. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo